Today we’re going to show you in four short videos what the Flame device is, how to set up your Flame device as a developer phone once you have it, how to flash a new Firefox OS image onto the device and how to throttle the RAM to simulate slower devices.

For all of this you need a few things:

A USB cable to connect the Flame device

You need ADB and Fastboot installed. You can get this by installing the full Android developer suite or using these small and simple installer for Windows or Linux and OSX

Say “hello” to the Flame device

Setting up your Flame device

In this video you will learn how to set up your Flame device as a developer device. This includes enabling the developer menu and getting detailed information about the running apps using the Developer HUD. This tool tells you not only the detailed memory consumption of your apps, but also the frames per second they run on and where you memory went. All of which directly on the device itself.

Flashing a new Firefox OS image to your Flame device

In most cases, the over the air OS upgrades of Firefox OS should be enough for developers to stay up to date. If you want to live closer to the edge though, you can easily flash images provided by Mozilla to your device. All it needs is rebooting your device from the command line and running a shell script.

That’s it for now – stay up-to-date on the Wiki

We hope these videos have shown you how much insight into your apps and Firefox OS you get on a Flame device. All the information is also available on the Flame Device wiki page and will get updates as new information is available.

Clockworkmod = CWM, the modded recovery mode on Andoid phones.
You boot into the recovery menu, select a file and install it on your device. No flash scripts are be required for that, just the files on phones internal memory or sd card.

The Flame has a recovery menu, but there are no files out there to update the flame through it.

Also there is no “native way” for Windows users to flash their Flame device to a nightly build (1.4, 2.0, 2.1). The available shallow_flash.sh script is only for Linux and MacOSX.

Of course Windows users could setup e.g. Ubuntu in a VM and flash the device through it, but thats not the ideal solution in my opinion.